I rolled my eyes pretty hard at West almost dropping the N word. It’s entirely out of character. He’s given no indication he’s even subconsciously racist. Did this show just feel it needed to point out that every white person imaginable is auto-racist? It was a needless and tacky gesture, boring button-pushing.

Emily, when I see the firestorm surrounding Jussie Smollett and think of the press so desperate to advance a narrative that they suspend belief to promote fiction, I think of someone like you. You’re an ideologue posing as an art critic. It’s boring and thinly veiled. Who would take joy or satisfaction in the abuse…

But his death is his own doing, a choice they were forced to make, not a natural consequence of their violence.
That isn’t ambiguity. It isn’t poetic. It’s narrative cowardice.

The real kicker will be when they inevitably have a pregnancy plotline with a “who’s the father?” cliffhanger next season.

All right, there’s one thing that’s been bugging me about Susie since last season and was left unaddressed in this one as well. Namely, why is she stylized as butch? I mean, I get that they wanted a counterpoint to Midge’s hyper-femininity, but in the 1950s, that wasn’t just a choice of looks, it had a deeper, bolder…

I couldn’t disagree more. Go back to your cheating husband, all the while cheating on your fiancé? That’s our heroine? Nothing about the ending was good for any character. I don’t understand why Midge would WANT to get back together with a man who cheated on her. I was hoping she was better than that. What’s to say he…

Side thing but a thing that’s kind of driving me a little batty:

All the implied fucking that Midge is doing. She’s clearly banging Benji and bangs Joel. From a modern perspective which we are because we’re the audience viewing this, this is totally normal. She’s a woman with a sense of sexual agency.

But sexual agency…

I could not agree with you more. These are literally all the points I made on Reddit immediately after watching this episode.
I really hated that final scene. I really like Benjamin and really hate Joel, so it’s kind of a given. Even though Joel was getting a “redemption arc” this season, a lot of his behaviour made…

He’s a really private, normal, low-key dude.

The casual way Black Frankie responds to violence is always this strange mix of funny and disturbing. 

Of course I know why. It’s because it undervalues female characters by treating them as mere plot objects for the male characters and their existence becomes defined by how they impacted a man’s life.

Never seen a review further from the mark than this one.

“So I guess he was just using Dex as a sort of battering ram to get into Fisk’s penthouse? Which then only results in making Matt’s mission even harder because he has to stop Dex from killing Fisk while simultaneously trying to kill Fisk himself. It’s a clumsy way for the episode to get to the preordained endpoint of…

Wow. This episode was amazing. I have no idea what show you’re even watching.

It’s by far the grisliest bit in an unexpectedly grisly season, all the more for how perfunctory it was. I had to watch it again to make sure it was what I thought it was

Is this comment meant for another article and series? As an action hound, it’s indisputable that Daredevil has some of the most insane fight scenes on screen.

Part of me thinks they’ll try for a Heroes for Hire show at the new Disney streaming service... but then I’m worried that they’ll do the SAME thing they’ve done with all the Netflix shows and insist that the first season is ANOTHER origin story, and they only form HfH right at the very end.

I’m struggling to remember the villain of Season 2

Ironically, Marvel’s best TV show--Agents of SHIELD--is the one people should be watching but are too obnoxious to.

I feel like male actors get to make a LOT more than 2 critically meh/financially unsuccessful movies before people start questioning whether their careers are over or ruined. Especially if that actor’s resume includes being the lead in a successful franchise and an Oscar win (among three other nominations). Jennifer…